After being examined yesterday in New York, Carlos Beltran has a decision to make.

According to a Mets press release, tests conducted on Beltran at the Hospital for Special Surgery revealed a fracture of the zygomatic arch (cheekbone) on the left side of his face, and Beltran met with a maxillofacial surgeon. Beltran now has two options regarding how to handle the fracture.

The first is to have surgery. The second is to bypass surgery and play with some form of facial protection, like a mask.

Beltran’s decision is expected imminently.

Beltran, who also sustained a slight concussion as a result of his head-smashing collision with Mike Cameron last Thursday, also had a brain MRI and a neurologic evaluation in order to test for post-concussive syndrome, the release said. Each test came back normal.

If Beltran elects not to have the surgery and plays with the protection, he could return in a day or so. If he has the surgery, it’s believed he could still return in a couple of days.

On Sunday, when Beltran addressed reporters for the first time since he spoke right after Thursday’s collision, he explained the situation with his facial fracture.

“I have a little fracture and that fracture is moving inside like six millimeters, so they want to see if it moved more or it came back to place,” Beltran said. “So if it came back to place they don’t have to do the surgery. I really feel in my heart that I don’t want to go through surgery.”

As for Cameron, who did undergo surgery last week for a broken nose and fractures in his cheekbones, he spent another day in Scripps Clinic yesterday and had what the Met release termed a “follow-up CT scan.” According to the release, Cameron may be able to leave Scripps as soon as today.

Cameron’s agent, Mike Nicotera, said he spoke with his client yesterday.

“He sounds like he’s doing fine,” Nicotera said.

Nicotera said Cameron is still feeling some pain. But the agent noted that the right fielder is pretty determined to return to the Mets this season.

“He said, ‘I just need to get back out there,’ ” Nicotera said.

Interestingly, Nicotera said that some members of the Padres organization have gone to visit Cameron, a gesture which Cameron appreciated.

Tonight, the Mets return to Shea to open a six-game homestand against the Pirates and Nationals. The Mets, who are 4½ games behind the NL wild card-leading Astros, are coming off a momentous six-game road trip in which they not only lost Beltran and Cameron to the collision, but also lost four games, three by one run each.

“It’s been really emotional. It’s been a roller coaster, this whole road trip,” said Pedro Martinez. “But hopefully, we’ll get Carlos pretty soon back, and I know we’re going to miss Cammy, but hopefully Victor [Diaz] will give us the push that we need from right field and we’ll be able to survive this. It’s not like we played really terrible. We just happened to hit a couple of teams that played some good games against us.”